Warners has it tied up for HBO Max, which doesn't release until May
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Yup. And I'm not paying for another subscription service, so that's a double bummer.
eBay has copies of the series 11 DVD set for $10 shipped, which, if all you want to do is see it, is hardly absurd, unless you're anti-physical media. Buying it digitally is $25, which, again, hardly seems like a ridiculous amount. My local library system even has multiple copies available. I mean, it's not like this is difficult to get if you actually want to see it, which, judging from the opinion you've already formed from one episode, it seems like you don't.
I actually don't dislike the premiere overall. But I just don't usually enjoy paying money for TV beyond what I'm already forced to.
Well, not in the show, but...
...and there was talk for a long time that Stephen Fry was hoping to pen an episode but it never quite worked out... instead we got Fear Her.
Fry owes us.
First one has to be Stephen Fry. That would be something to finally get me hyped.
Oh. Twitter already revealed Fry.
Lenny Henry was in Chibnall's Boardchurch apparently so it kinda makes sense. I feel like his casting probably would have been more impactful at the start of the RTD era, his profile has gone down a bit in recent years.
He's mostly known in the UK for being a comedian, very popular from the late 70's to mid 90's with Tiswas, The Lenny Henry Show and Chef. Seeing that comment that he was in Broadchurch, I googled that and sure enough, he was a regular there. I watched that season and don't think I recognized him. His profile has dropped considerably from that peak period 25+ years ago.
He's been doing a PhD over the past few years, so maybe was on a break.
Yeah, I find Kill the Moon to be really underrated, and they just work so well together. Some of Jenna Coleman's best acting there. The development of the relationship between Twelve and Clara is well beyond any Doctor/companion IMO.
I'm okay with Kill the Moon as long as the Moon being a fucking egg is retconned at some point.
That's not really a thing you could retcon
Going to be awkward when the moon doesn't explode in 2049 though
Yes, you could. You absolutely could. It's easy, relatively speaking. It's fiction so you find a clever or satisfying story to do it in. God knows you could ask Steven Moffat and he'd give you about five or six different ways to do it. Russell T would make an extremely dramatic two-parter about it.
Moffat literally handwaved away every single mass-humanity-impacting event over the RTD era in one line. And it was fine!
I just want to say that I love the new tagline: Space. For All.
Almost as good as It's about Time.
Almost as good as It's about Time.
I'm sure the moon being an egg will just never be brought up again.
The episode itself was a sort of a retcon wasn't it? The Doctor says that witnessing the moon give birth to a giant alien creature is what inspires humanity to start going back into out space again, ultimately leaving Earth and forming their many great and bountiful human empires...but hadn't Ten said back in Waters of Mars that that was all inspired by Adelaide's death and the destruction of the Mars base?
ultimately it's a show about time travel, where history is malleable whenever the writers need it to be. So it probably doesn't matter.
The episode itself was a sort of a retcon wasn't it? The Doctor says that witnessing the moon give birth to a giant alien creature is what inspires humanity to start going back into out space again, ultimately leaving Earth and forming their many great and bountiful human empires...but hadn't Ten said back in Waters of Mars that that was all inspired by Adelaide's death and the destruction of the Mars base?
ultimately it's a show about time travel, where history is malleable whenever the writers need it to be. So it probably doesn't matter.
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Confirmation from the BBC that the series starts on New Year's Day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/amp...nQkl0QvG86cLQcVZyBUMZ0KEQoiJLAXSnN4vTZL7teFGM
Jeez, some of those comments. What's with the Jodie Whittaker hate?
Woman!!!!!
Don't read the comments. And don't search 'Doctor Who' in Youtube or else your recommendations will forever be filled with "Doctor Who is Ruined' videos.
Right. I think chalking it up to just "woman!!!" is disingenuous, though there is likely some number of people who hate her because of that.
There were some comments about regarding the series overall, but I'm talking the comments that exclusively mention Jodie, with no mention of the series, just comments like "not my Doctor", and shit like that.
I think there were enough flaws in her characterization of the role last year that those comments still aren't all necessarily just sexism. TBH, while I don't think she's as much at fault as Chibs is, I still don't think she did anything more than a serviceable job using the material to make the character her own.
Jodie's been an excellent Doctor with some slightly variable scripts, just like pretty much every other actor to ever take the part. I'd certainly put her first year over Tennant or Capaldi's first, both of which were very rough seasons.
Excited we're getting the new series soon.
Excited we're getting the new series soon.